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    Turning Points
    Turning Points
    Turning Points
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    Turning Points

    By Diana Prince

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    Diana Prince brings a new and unrelenting vision to modern poetry. She combines the brevity of E. E. Cummings, the sharp imagery of William Carlos Williams, and the bite of Sylvia Plath in a new and unexpected voice.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 28, 2015
    ISBN9781504921961
    Turning Points
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    Diana Prince

    Dr. Diana Prince has a master’s degree in English and a master’s degree in philosophy from California State University at San Diego. She also has a PhD. in psychology from United States International University.

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      Turning Points - Diana Prince

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      © 2015 Diana Prince. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse   07/27/2015

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      CONTENTS

      Perspective

      Michelangelo as a Boy

      Morning Moon

      Gargoyles of Notre Dame

      Why I Can’t Love You

      God Poem

      New Brunswick Farm

      Time to Leave

      How Much I Love You

      Café in France

      A Matter of Trust

      Woman in the Sandbox

      Something Remembered

      Alzheimer’s Vigil

      The Whale

      The Way of Things

      Luggage

      When He Lived There

      Regret

      Heaven

      The Absence of Tulips

      Ballerina

      Angels Over Texas

      An Old Love

      After Dad Died

      Affectations

      Prisoner

      At Fifteen

      Moment

      Sharks by Mail

      Caterpillar

      My Africa

      All Your Ghosts

      How Far Would a Blossom Go?

      Birth and Death

      The Art of Being Lost

      As I Was Sleeping

      San Diego

      Riding the Evening Train

      Gardenia

      The Ghosts of August

      Coeur d’Alene

      At Eighty-Five

      My Mother in Trees

      Love as a Game

      Woman on a Streetcorner

      Tulip

      Divorce

      The Old Man and the Orchids

      Picnic Among the Trees

      What if God Heard Us Singing?

      The Cruel One

      Homeless

      Letter from Peru

      On the Porch in Winter

      Night Visit

      Dove on a Phone Wire

      Rose and Hummingbird

      Echogram

      Oriental Portrait

      A Week in Bed with Tolstoy

      Hiking the North Trail

      All Those Things You

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